Author
Shāh Arzānī, Muḥammad Akbar ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century.
Publication Date
[Amritsar?], [1822]
Subject
Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Pharmacopoeias, Pharmacopoeias /
Early works to 1800., Materia medica, Materia medica /
Early works to 1800., Traditional medicine, Traditional medicine /
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions., Medicine, Persian, Medicine, Persian /
Early works to 1800.
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
110
Physical Dimensions
110 leaves : paper ; 270 x 160 (200 x 95) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006819388
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of the concise manual of medicine by Muḥammad Akbar Arzānī (d.1722). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 852
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.215, copied by Muḥammad Bakhsh valad-i Muḥammad ʻAẓīm with transcription completed 4 Ṣafar 1238 [ca. 21 October 1822].
Accompanying materials: a. Card with typed notes and additions in pen: "K239 | 17300 [in pencil] museum acc. nbr. | Indian [crossed out] Mogul (?) manuscript volume, paper cover, linen back. | Persian script | Amritsar." -- b. Photocopy of card with typed notes "17300 | 865 Amritsor, India | 1 Persian manuscript book | Original no. -- K239. Medical book. | Univ. of Mich., Div. of Fine Arts | Walter Koelz, 1932-33 | March 19, 1934." -- c. Scrap of ruled paper with notes in pencil "Persian | dated 1238 A.H. | c. 1900 | MIZAN AL-TIB = | medical book." -- d. Piece of paper with handwritten notes "3 Islamic mss. apparently brought over to RBR from Mus. of Anthro in late 1970's (Persian)" -- e. Length of white cotton cord with label attached "17300/K239v" [from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993].
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 1
Binding: Pasteboards covered in linen and perhaps once-tinted paper with linen now over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; 'board linings' in untinted laid paper, lower hinge in recycled paper (manuscript 'waste') ; upper and lower covers carry line drawings in black ink of large central floral motifs ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; overall in extremely poor condition with signficant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, textile and boards, staining, etc. ; housed in box for protection.
Support: non-European (likely Indian) laid paper with roughly 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and irregular chain lines visible, sturdy though transluscent, dark cream to beige in color, burnished ; much staining and tide lines.
Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; diagram "دائره رجال الغيب" following colophon at close (p.215).
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant Indian hand ; serifless with inclination to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, yāʼ always pointed.
Layout: Written in 18 lines per page.
Collation: 13 IV(104), III (110) ; almost exclusively quaternions (followed by single ternion) ; middle of the quire marks in the form of red dots or small strokes in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes back flyleaf).
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "نفع وار وبعون الله تعالی تم تمام شد کتاب میزان الطب ... خطه فقیر حقیر اضعف عباد الله محمد بخش ولد محمد عظیم حفظه الله عن ... بتاریخ چهارم ماه صفر موافق سنه ١٢٣٨ هجری"
Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمین والصلواة والسلام علی رسوله محمد واله الطیبین الطاهرین ... اما بعد العبد الضعیف النحیف طالب المعانی محمد ارزانی المسمی بمحمد اکبر میکوید [می گوید] که چون اطفال فقیر و دیگر اعزه در صدد خواندن علم طب بودند مختصری که صبیانرا [صبیان را] تعلم آن آسان بود بعبارتی موجز که مشتمل بر فوائد بسیار است تالیف نمودم و بمیزان الطب موسوم ساختم ..."
Title from opening matter (p.2) and colophon (p.215).
Ms. codex.
Assorted excerpts and former owners' marks on upper and lower board linings, 'title page' (p.1), final leaf (p.218, originally left blank, also carries drawing of floral motif in red ink), back flyleaf (p.219), etc. ; text of rubrics (keywords to be entered in red) occasionally visible in the margin ; occasional marginal corrections.
